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Keyboard real ow in 2.1 roms

So not sure if anyone else has noticed this but my keyboard seems real slow in flipz 2.1 rom. I have tried in handcent and in the stock messenger and even turned off haptic feedback and it just seems reallllly slow. Anyone else have this issue?
Also, anyone know which colors handcent can make the led flash when you receive a message? I can't get any of them to flash.

Unfortunately, our Hero's led color can not be changed by applications because of coding even though it can be green, amber, and yellow. As for the keyboard, the stock keyboard(without voice), swype and possibly aosp keyboard can be installed. Just search to find out how.

You're not alone there. I flashed my first 2.1 ROM yesterday (DC 2.06, later that night updated to 2.07 via DCUpdater), and noticed that in Landscape, the keyboard lags harder than it did in 1.5. Typing in portrait mode seems fine..quite fast; but in landscape mode forget it. I even flashed the AOSP keyboard, and even with voice disabled, it is only slightly better than the HTC keyboard (also the version without voice/smileys).

So what is the basic color the led can flash at because mine doesn't flash at all.
Ya landscape mode is the issue with the speed. I don't like swype at all and haven't really messed with any other keyboards.

A lot of that lag is coming from HTC's messaging app. I pushed the stock android messaging app and texting is great for me.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. My keyboard (modded XDA version) is blazing fast. If you guys really, want, I can post a modded version that I made of the new DamageControl ROM up here... Please note though that I DID remove quite a bit of stuff from it... such as Voice Dialer, Voice Search, all the HTC widgets except for clock, weather, and search, all the Sprint apps, etc. Pretty much, it's just an extremely slimmed down version. Oh, and the keyboard is black with the vanilla lockscreen

Normally, the LED will blink green for notifications, orange when plugged in and charging (green when plugged in and battery full), and blink red if the battery is at 15% or less.
As far as the keyboards go, like I said, I have used the default HTC keyboard without voice/smileys, as well as the AOSP (plain android) keyboard, and both lag badly in landscape mode. I haven't tried Swype, and honestly don't plan to. It just doesn't interest me.

Leukay said:
A lot of that lag is coming from HTC's messaging app. I pushed the stock android messaging app and texting is great for me.
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I did notice that the HTC messaging app seems to be a little slow as well (showing the spinny Loading wheel for several seconds every time I open a thread). Where did you find the stock android msg app? I'd be willing to give it a shot...

if you disable vibrate on press for the keyboard that helps ALOT

I forgot to mention that vibe and sounds are off. I have auto correction on, but that's it. I thought i wasn't able to type fast before, now I *really* have to type slowly and deliberately, otherwise I can easily get 5-7 words ahead of the phone (and I don't even type that fast on the thing lol)

noobmodder said:
Normally, the LED will blink green for notifications, orange when plugged in and charging (green when plugged in and battery full), and blink red if the battery is at 15% or less.
As far as the keyboards go, like I said, I have used the default HTC keyboard without voice/smileys, as well as the AOSP (plain android) keyboard, and both lag badly in landscape mode. I haven't tried Swype, and honestly don't plan to. It just doesn't interest me.
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I am talking about the trackball....that doesn't light up.
lv2bll said:
if you disable vibrate on press for the keyboard that helps ALOT
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Nope. Already have it disabled and it's super slow compared to the pancake rom I had from flipz.
noobmodder said:
I forgot to mention that vibe and sounds are off. I have auto correction on, but that's it. I thought i wasn't able to type fast before, now I *really* have to type slowly and deliberately, otherwise I can easily get 5-7 words ahead of the phone (and I don't even type that fast on the thing lol)
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Using the stock one or handcent make it both really slow and annoying. Really do not like this.

mrinehart93 said:
I don't know what you guys are talking about. My keyboard (modded XDA version) is blazing fast. If you guys really, want, I can post a modded version that I made of the new DamageControl ROM up here... Please note though that I DID remove quite a bit of stuff from it... such as Voice Dialer, Voice Search, all the HTC widgets except for clock, weather, and search, all the Sprint apps, etc. Pretty much, it's just an extremely slimmed down version. Oh, and the keyboard is black with the vanilla lockscreen
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Can you just possibly post the keyboard?

azr6 said:
I am talking about the trackball....that doesn't light up.
I don't use Handcent, but the trackball on the hero isn't designed to light up for any notifications, which is as far as I know, a limitation of the actual phone itself, and not just a software issue. Overall, in 2.1 the trackball is linked to the light sensor, so it will go on and off as it sees necessary, but I am not aware of anyone being able to make it light up for notifications.
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It says in the features of 2.1 from flipz...
Trackball led now works
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Handcent also has an option on making it light up. So unless I am totally not reading both things correctly I would think the trackball would light up.

azr6 said:
It says in the features of 2.1 from flipz...
Handcent also has an option on making it light up. So unless I am totally not reading both things correctly I would think the trackball would light up.
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Before the latest leak the trackball light didn't work at all. This new leak has the light working and it is linked to the light sensor (doesn't light up in a bright room).

Ohhh...for a while there were issues with the trackball not lighting up at all, like...period. Now the trackball will light up as it needs to based on the light sensor. Go into a dark room, or hold your finger over the light sensor (black area just to the right of the earpiece) and roll the ball. It should light up. If you are in a light room, it won't light up. It's a new feature in 2.1 as opposed to 1.5, where it would light up every time it was touched, regardless of the light conditions.
As for handcent, the options for changing the LED color and trackball lighting up are for other phones that support it; the hero does not. The hardware isn't capable of using the ball as a notification light, and the actual LED color can't be changed.

noobmodder said:
I did notice that the HTC messaging app seems to be a little slow as well (showing the spinny Loading wheel for several seconds every time I open a thread). Where did you find the stock android msg app? I'd be willing to give it a shot...
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Credit goes to Darchstar, as I got this from DarchVanilla. If you're on DarchLegend v5 make sure you remove Mms.odex from system/app. Otherwise just push

Leukay said:
Credit goes to Darchstar, as I got this from DarchVanilla. If you're on DarchLegend v5 make sure you remove Mms.odex from system/app. Otherwise just push
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Awesome! Thanks man, I appreciate it! (and a tip of the hat to Darchstar as well)

danknee said:
Before the latest leak the trackball light didn't work at all. This new leak has the light working and it is linked to the light sensor (doesn't light up in a bright room).
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That is good to know.
noobmodder said:
Ohhh...for a while there were issues with the trackball not lighting up at all, like...period. Now the trackball will light up as it needs to based on the light sensor. Go into a dark room, or hold your finger over the light sensor (black area just to the right of the earpiece) and roll the ball. It should light up. If you are in a light room, it won't light up. It's a new feature in 2.1 as opposed to 1.5, where it would light up every time it was touched, regardless of the light conditions.
As for handcent, the options for changing the LED color and trackball lighting up are for other phones that support it; the hero does not. The hardware isn't capable of using the ball as a notification light, and the actual LED color can't be changed.
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It says in handcent that it is for the hero and another phone so I would assume the hero is capable of doing it unless the author is wrong. O well.
Now to just speed up this damn keyboard.

azr6 said:
That is good to know.
It says in handcent that it is for the hero and another phone so I would assume the hero is capable of doing it unless the author is wrong. O well.
Now to just speed up this damn keyboard.
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That would be the GSM hero in Europe, off which the sprint hero is based; apparently that version has it, but for some reason it's not on the American version.
As far as the keyboard goes, using the android messaging app posted by Leukay a few posts above works like a charm!

Trackpad Notification Light

I was taking a quick look at the leds in the G2.
When i look at the jogball-backlight in regards to the trackpad light, I am unable to change the color. It retains the following value.
# cat color
color : invalid length​I tried to echo "0 255 255" into that, and still see the same message when I cat it. Any ideas?
Also, I can cat 255 into the brightness with no effect. I see the value when I cat brightness, but the light is still off. Looks like you have to trigger it? When sleeping the display and forcing the notification light, the brightness gets set back to 0 after it's flash.
Also the jogball-backlight directory contains:
- uevent
l- subsystem
l- devices
- power/wakeup
- brightness
- max_brightness
- trigger
- color​
Also, check this out.
#cat trigger
[none] rfkill0 battery-charging-or-full battery-charging battery-full usb-online ac-online mmc0 mmc1 mmc2​
-oldsk00lz

You tried this after soft root, correct?
Hahhahha my mistake nevermind...

Where is the trackball light? Is it next to the earpiece like every other LED light on most HTC phones?

mortal300 said:
Where is the trackball light? Is it next to the earpiece like every other LED light on most HTC phones?
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It has a touchpad light like the nexus and a battery notify light next the speaker. Currently, the trackpad flashing during an incoming call and the led light by the earpiece flashes during low battery or solid while charging. No flashing anything for notifications such as messages/email/ or reminders which sucks obviously. No apps change this currently without root. I guess this was the concern and the color obviously.

Tweetdeck makes the led flash when new post appear

When I have a new text message, with Chomp, the trackpad flashes intermittently as long as it goes unchecked.

Well that's good news I look a bit harder for 3rd party apps that can make notifications without root and see. Plus, there is a trackpad light app that requires root but let's you change colors and it creates notifications for email/sms/mms/ and reminders.

Have you tried that application yet? Would be interesting to see if it works as the directory structure looks different than what I read about the nexus 1. I was wondering if the 'invalid number' for color was due to no color being available, or just something that we couldn't read/set.
The notification in the earpiece looks to be amber/green versus RGB.
-oldsk00lz
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The notification in the earpiece also goes red when battery is low along with amber and green so I think its RGB. I miss that led being used for notifications like on the G1. The trackpad glows slowly for notifications and seems to be only if the screen is off.

phesone said:
The notification in the earpiece also goes red when battery is low along with amber and green so I think its RGB. I miss that led being used for notifications like on the G1. The trackpad glows slowly for notifications and seems to be only if the screen is off.
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If you go to /sys/class/leds you will only see amber and green. On my G1 I see red, green, blue. I think the amber is actually used for the red. I think it would be hard to having any blue colors without a blue led setting.
-oldsk00lz

Im assuming none of you guys seen the other two ligths located at the top left of the device on the face? if im not mistaken if you hold it up to the light it shows a purple square bulb below and a blue one above. is the blue one for blutooth? and is the other thing the proximity sensor?

I'm pretty sure both of the other "bulbs" you see are actually both the proximity sensor, on my vibrant there were 3 things, one was the ambient light sensor and the other 2 were the proximity sensors. I guess its an emitter and reciever.
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Hey, I just got the G2 and I am also gravely missing the LED notifications from the G1. I installed handcent, and have gotten the trackpad outline to blink, but the blinking is so infrequent and limited to white. There must be a way to toggle the charging indicator LED's. I've tried the app "Blinker" with no satisfaction. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

not getting the notifications on gmail, or handcent or anything. This is a deal-breaker for me. I may steal my nexus back from my wife and leave her with the G2 if one of you smart guys cant figure this out!

schwiz said:
not getting the notifications on gmail, or handcent or anything. This is a deal-breaker for me. I may steal my nexus back from my wife and leave her with the G2 if one of you smart guys cant figure this out!
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That's because the trackpad does the notifications. Not the other lights nor will they ever work for notifications... get the apps that add reminders and you'll be fine. Quit crying...

Lmao @ quit crying ! But really.. Am I the only one who likes the fact that I can see when I have a notification while my phone is charging? I think it was a good idea though to seperate them. Any dittos?

sino8r said:
That's because the trackpad does the notifications. Not the other lights nor will they ever work for notifications... get the apps that add reminders and you'll be fine. Quit crying...
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What is this reminder you are talking about? I don't see any reminder in the sdk. Also, I would be on board with finding alternate apps that use this reminder instead if the Gmail app used it. No notification on gmail blows, I'm sorry!
Also, I heard chomp shows the led notification, but I tried it out and it doesn't how about being a little more constructive and offering alternatives.

schwiz said:
What is this reminder you are talking about? I don't see any reminder in the sdk. Also, I would be on board with finding alternate apps that use this reminder instead if the Gmail app used it. No notification on gmail blows, I'm sorry!
Also, I heard chomp shows the led notification, but I tried it out and it doesn't how about being a little more constructive and offering alternatives.
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No its not a built in option. Nor would it be in the sdk... there a few third party apps that add the ability. Here's what I use: gmail notifier/ sms notifier/ and calendar notifier. They are all free and available in the market. They work very well and make up for lack of traditional led. The trackball flashes too only in white and fades on and off slowly.

sino8r said:
No its not a built in option. Nor would it be in the sdk... there a few third party apps that add the ability. Here's what I use: gmail notifier/ sms notifier/ and calendar notifier. They are all free and available in the market. They work very well and make up for lack of traditional led. The trackball flashes too only in white and fades on and off slowly.
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Thanks! This will have to do for now.
Edit: back to crying... color doesn't work. boooo

schwiz said:
Thanks! This will have to do for now.
Edit: back to crying... color doesn't work. boooo
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When the N1 came out, all we had was white notifications from the trackball. It took some time but devs eventually figured out how to get diverse colored notifications from the trackball, and from the charge LED.
Relax and be patient, surely the G2 will follow the same path. It just came out.

[Q] Notification Light

Is it possible to, like the small little notification led, make the smartphone's buttons (home, search, back and options(?)) (or even just one button, if the respective drivers allow it) stay on when there's a pending notification?
I saw this on a friend's LG 2X and he told me that was a customization made by someone in a custom ROM, so that wasn't a stock feature.
I think this will be, if it's doable, an awesome extra feature since the led is too much tiny to capt our attention to the pending notification and I imagine it's not very hard to implement.
Thanks in advance.

Well I am gonna point out that the small notification led we have is really cool RGB led. So you can have different colours depending on what it's going to notify about. Sad thing is as you stated it's pretty small and not visible at some points.
I would say the thing you wish for is up to the ones who customize roms. Ask them, head over to the development section.

Right. I'll post this in Dev section.

As long as we're talking about notification led, can someone tell me where to find full a description of light colors and meanings? The manual on the Huaweis own site isn't full/complete, 'coz it doesn't mention a blue color. I once got the led to flash blue, when Watchdog Lite "got a wiff" of an app that misbehaved and notified me about it. And it wasn't a one time event, since it did it with every Watchdog notification.
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Vk_ said:
As long as we're talking about notification led, can someone tell me where to find full a description of light colors and meanings? The manual on the Huaweis own site isn't full/complete, 'coz it doesn't mention a blue color. I once got the led to flash blue, when Watchdog Lite "got a wiff" of an app that misbehaved and notified me about it. And it wasn't a one time event, since it did it with every Watchdog notification.
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if the application can manage the led then you could see every possible colour if it is programmed for it...
for example through the handcent sms you can put whatever colour you want for the notification the programm handles...
so maybe with watchdog you can try it too...
they don't have special meanings the colours and they turn on to the colour they are programmed to from the company...

Is there a good app to set notification light color? Besides Light Flow (which changes the color but only blinks once or stays always on) or Blink (which asks for an internet access I don't want to grant due the usability settings, and thus haven't even tried)? Any way to change 'em manually?
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Lock screen notifications

Hi all
So I'm new to Android and am wondering where the lock screen notifications are located and how are they enabled?

ipguy said:
Hi all
So I'm new to Android and am wondering where the lock screen notifications are located and how are they enabled?
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lock screen notifications? they come up in a red circle on the lock screen to show you missed calls/messages

I'm running cm9

No lock screen notis. Get hand cent from the market. It'll turn the screen on with a pop up of the new text.
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having moved from the walled in garden called the iphone, i expected that this functionally would be available by default on android (ICS).
can't believe it's not !

and dont forget you are running a version that is aleaked and not official, official releases might have it included it might not

Also, most Android phones have notification lights that flash different colours for different types of notification.
Samsung decided not to implement this... But there's a great app on Google Play, called NoLed, that can display notifications on the screen. Doesn't use much battery if you set it up right either - rarely even registers on the batt stats!

If you are from the iPhone then something else to warn you about is that any text messages > 3 messages long will be converted to MMS.
Handcent is a good alternative texting app that allows you to control whether or not this happens (there's no option in Android's default messaging app.)
Caught me out and cost me for the MMS messages too since they aren't included in my contract.

CM9 Roms are still in development
I'd recommend you go here http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/ and make a new post asking for this to be included in a future release.
CyanogenMod is strong because it users suggestions are taken on-board if they get enough support from the rest of the community. make the post, put it here and I'll post in support.
and DONATE. even if its £1/$1.6 they will only get better if you give your support.

NoLed is a brilliant tool for screen notifications, with possibility to monitor not only standard things like SMS and mail, you can also monitor apps, like Wordfeud or anything else

+1 for no led
Sent by Galaxy Note

Higgsy said:
+1 for no led
Sent by Galaxy Note
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Tried noled, I'm going to refrain from commenting on the grounds that it might incriminate me

How to set notification led color?

I noticed (unless it was my imagination) 2 different colors for my notification led (which I was pleasantly surprised to find), Gmail is like a light blue, and I think it was fb that was regular blue, so is there an app to set the led color for each app?
Or at least see all the colors it can display?
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mvmacd said:
I noticed (unless it was my imagination) 2 different colors for my notification led (which I was pleasantly surprised to find), Gmail is like a light blue, and I think it was fb that was regular blue, so is there an app to set the led color for each app?
Or at least see all the colors it can display?
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You can use LightFlow which allows you to control the notifications (light, sound, vibration) for a ridiculous amount of apps. Works perfectly on the Nexus 10, I've used it on my Galaxy Nexus forever. It's a phenomenal app. That's the lite version, there's also a pay version which unlocks more features.

+1 for lightflow, I use it on my phone its great. Trying it for my N10

I'm pretty sure some apps have built in customization for the led color, I've seen it in the facebook and facebook messenger app.

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+1 for lightflow, I use it on my phone its great. Trying it for my N10
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It works very well. Prior to configuring lightflow notifications were not illuminating the LED. After setting up lightflow all is as it should be.

daLareid said:
I'm pretty sure some apps have built in customization for the led color, I've seen it in the facebook and facebook messenger app.
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I looked in the Facebook settings but all it had was a toggle to enable notification light, no to change the color.
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You can use LightFlow which allows you to control the notifications (light, sound, vibration) for a ridiculous amount of apps. Works perfectly on the Nexus 10, I've used it on my Galaxy Nexus forever. It's a phenomenal app. That's the lite version, there's also a pay version which unlocks more features.
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lol.. well I had found this app before starting this thread, however it seemed like it was messed up because it kept showing a light when I had no notifications. Turns out it was "No signal," and after disabling everything in Light Flow, I can test the led for colors.
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.

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I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.
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Are you using the lite version. Facebook and GV are there for me on the paid version

mvmacd said:
I looked in the Facebook settings but all it had was a toggle to enable notification light, no to change the color.
lol.. well I had found this app before starting this thread, however it seemed like it was messed up because it kept showing a light when I had no notifications. Turns out it was "No signal," and after disabling everything in Light Flow, I can test the led for colors.
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.
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You can't add programs but the paid version has like over 300 different apps I think. Well worth the dollar or two. I use it for Google Voice on both my N10 and GNex and it works perfectly. If it's not there it's likely due to being the lite version as mentioned above.

mvmacd said:
I looked in the Facebook settings but all it had was a toggle to enable notification light, no to change the color.
lol.. well I had found this app before starting this thread, however it seemed like it was messed up because it kept showing a light when I had no notifications. Turns out it was "No signal," and after disabling everything in Light Flow, I can test the led for colors.
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.
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That's odd, my phone doesn't even have led notifications support and it shows it to me in the options though lol.

mvmacd said:
I noticed (unless it was my imagination) 2 different colors for my notification led (which I was pleasantly surprised to find), Gmail is like a light blue, and I think it was fb that was regular blue, so is there an app to set the led color for each app?
Or at least see all the colors it can display?
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I've noticed the following:
White - Gmail/Gtalk
Green - Yelp, Flight Track
Blue - Facebook
Red - Google+
I heard there was a Purple, but so far I haven't been able to trigger it.

shoyuu said:
I've noticed the following:
White - Gmail/Gtalk
Green - Yelp, Flight Track
Blue - Facebook
Red - Google+
I heard there was a Purple, but so far I haven't been able to trigger it.
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Craigsnotifica goes purple. (Edit: On my S3) Try that.

If you couldn't tweak the color led light for Facebook, go to Setting -> Notifications -> Light

If you're willing to root and flash a custom ROM, many feature the ability to control led and set custom colors on a per-app basis. From personal experience, I know that the AOKP ROM by Task650 and Ktoonsez has an awesome interface for doing so.